A defined group of people and their actions to protect and improve the health of the community.
What is community health?
100
School health services, health education, counseling, social services, and phys ed.
What is coordinated school health?
100
Behaviors that impact a persons health.
What is health behavior?
100
Those that cannot be transmitted from an infected person to a healthy one.
What is noncommunicable diseases?
200
Any combination of planned learning experiences based on sound theories.
What is health education?
200
Approach to health that focuses on balancing many aspects of a persons life.
What is wellness?
200
Planning for and the measures taken to forestall the onset of disease or other health problems.
What is prevention?
200
A social action process that promote participation of people, organizations and communities in gaining control over their lives.
What is empowerment?
300
Any planned combination of educational, political, environmental, or organizational mechanisms that support actions and conditions to the health of individuals.
What is health promotion?
300
A term the government uses for the health care system.
What is health field?
300
Disease for which biological agents are the cause and are transmissible from one individual to another.
What is communicable diseases?
300
The study of distribution of health related states or events in specific populations and the application of the study to control health problems.
What is epidemiology?
400
The process of reducing risks and alleviating disease.
What is disease prevention?
400
All those aspects of health, both physical and mental, which are developed within the human body.
What is human biology?
400
Health educators work to retrain, reeducate, and rehabilitate the individual.
What is tertiary prevention?
400
Preventive measures that lead to an early diagnosis.
What is secondary prevention?
500
What we as a society do collectively to assure the conditions in which people can be healthy.
What is public health?
500
The development, delivery, and evaluation of a planned curriculum. Preschool - 12th grade
What is comprehensive school health?
500
The process by which actions of individuals or groups attempt to change a particular health goal, program, or interest.
What is health advocacy?
500
Inherited, environmental and behavioral influences which are known to increase the likelihood of physical or mental problems.